Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-02
State Oeps.

The case against the Salvation Army at
st. Johnsbury, for disturbing the peace,
has been postponed another two weeks.
The Lake Champlain sea serpent has
been showing himself promscuously of
late. A party of five reliable Charlotte
people saw him the other day, and mod
estly estimate his length at between Is
and 20 feet
The executive committee of the Eastern
Vermont Road and Trotting Horse associa-
ton met at st. Johnsbury recently and
completed arrangements for holding an
exhibition at Barton. October II, when
purses will be competed for.
/ The ninth annual convention of the
Episcopal parish choirs of the diocese of
Vermont will be held September 10, in
ST. Paul's church, Windsor. Prof Whit
ney of Boston will again have charge of
the exercises in connection with it,
The August crop report from the De-
partment of Agriculture gives the follow
ing estimate of the condition of growing
crops in Vermont; Corn. 10l per cent:
spring wheat. 9S spring rye. %: oats,
/ 10l barley, 100; buckwheat, 90; clover,
l02; clover hay, 100; apples, %; grapes.
81.
Rutland people are having a heap of
trouble over their public schools owing
to their own neglect in not attending the
polls which enabled the Knights of Labor
to get control. The directors have chosen
- teachers: II of them Roman Catholics !;
one teacher is the l6-year-old daughter of
one of the directors and none have much
experience.
A Chelsea farmer has had a novel eX-
perience. Four months ago his hair and
whiskers began to come out and in a
month his head was as bald as babes.
His eyebrows and eye-winkers also came
off. and there seems little prospect of
new growth. Eight years ago, however,
his hair came off in the same way, but his
whiskers and eyebrows and eye-winkers
remained.
The site of the printing house of William
Lloyd Garrison in Bennington Centre
will be marked in few days by the Ben
ningtOn Historical society. On the mark
er will be this inscription: son this spot
William Lloyd Garrison edited the Jour-
nal of the Times, October 3, lS2S-March
%, 1920. Hither came Benjamin Lundy
to enlist him in the cause of the slave.
Garrison departed hence to lift up in Bal
timore the banner of immediate enamel
patton
Three prisoners escaped from the Ben
nington county Jail Saturday night by
saving their way out with case-knife.
Two of them were held in $1,000 bonds
for pocket-picking August l6, and the
other, William O. Burnys, was in for
felonious assault, in default of $4,000 bail.
The pick-pockets were Albany thieves,
calling themselves John Z. Bishop and
Edward W. Parry. The Jail was literally
wrecked. and all three were locked in
separate cells.
While Eden Brown of Worcester and
+ Henry r. tOllrln anu L reu l.. pIdN VI
Montpelier, painters, were at work on
Goddard seminary at Barre last Friday,
the staging gave way and Brown and
Cotfrin fell to the ground IS feet. The
former was unconscious and died soon
after. Cofirin's ankles were seriously in
iured. his hands were lacerated, and
he was otherwise bruised. Gray jumped
for the ropes when the staging fell and
hung until rescued. Brown was % years
of age and unmarried.
The St. Johnsbury Caledonian tells this
story of a Bradford farmer and the
'catchy" hay weather; He began hay
ing a little late and hauled in only two
loads when the rains came. The last
load he left on the cart. When the rains
let up so he could get in more hay, and
he went to pitch off the load which had
stood on the barn floor, he found that
one of his hens had laid nest of eggs on
the load and Matched out brood OF
chickens. This man has given up haying
and is now raising chickens for the White
Mountain hotels
The veterans of Windsor county held
reunion at Chester last week, at which
were gathered 300 old soldiers and 5000
people. EX-Gov. Proctor was president
of the occasion, the speakers being Col